Accountability post: I didn’t succeed at all today. I need to learn how to master family meals without cooking two separate dinners when family comes over. I feel awful. I didn't reach my protein goal. That's an important goal for me to reach daily. I will do better tomorrow. Blessings!!
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Let's talk about fat for a minute. I love it and can eat tons of it when it's prepared right with the right texture. Many folks are pretty adverse to it. When I grew up, any fat was trimmed from our meat and it was well done. I grew out of that but I think many haven't and just have pallettes transfered from their family. Pictured are some carnivore snax I had on our vacation. To me, it was incredible and the perfect amount of fat.
Would eat these? Why do you think so many aren't fans of eating fat? What's your go to fat source?
Accountability for Thursday, July 2nd:
Lunch: cut up pieces of ham and mixed with my scrambled eggs. I cut up a little bit of onion 🧅 to add to it. Also had some cottage cheese.
We took a break and didn't go to mom's apt today. We all needed to get things done at our own places. I did go through my photo albums to find pictures of Mom for the funeral and I figured out what I was going to wear. My husband and I were able to get a walk in today in between the rain drops.
Supper: warmed up a couple of brats and had some pork rinds and sour cream.
